Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He campaigned tirelessly to win back the twice yearly courts or assizes , which Buckingham had lost to Aylesbury . |
| 2 | However , the Secretary of State then came forward , in August , with a second , revised regulation , which dropped the exclusion of supplementary benefit and national assistance and sought instead to lay down a more restrictive set of conditions for back payments . |
| 3 | Hopper — crazy , mixed up , Dean-possessed Dennis — had already carried out a pretty full testing programme on several available substances and it was often a gamble to assess his behavioural pattern : lovable , sexual , violent or zonked out . |
| 4 | He had just picked up a particularly attractive ring , when a girl 's voice said , ‘ That 's not for sale . ’ |
| 5 | This we did — by which time we had both calmed down a little . |